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Showerthought: why do so many dig sites get reburied after they're studied?
I was watching a documentary on that Neanderthal cave in France and they said they backfill most of it after the work is done. I get preserving it for the future but doesn't that make it harder for someone 50 years from now to recheck your findings?
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noah9146d ago
My dig sites stay buried too, just ask my laundry basket.
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finleyl554d ago
But doesn't backfilling kind of defeat the whole point of having an open record for other researchers to verify? I saw a paper where they reburied some pottery fragments and now nobody can double check the original dating methods. Feels like we're just taking future scientists at their word without giving them a chance to look at the actual stuff.
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